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Apple releases macOS Catalina with new apps Find My and Screen Time, as well as Music, TV, and Podcast apps to replace iTunes, Sidecar for companion iPads, more — Apple today released the newest version of its operating system for Macs, macOS Catalina, to the public. macOS Catalina comes …
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| Dani Deahl / The Verge: |
Apple recommends that users such as DJs avoid Catalina until developers update their apps, as the option to export music libraries as XML files has been removed — Apple recommends users avoid Catalina until developers update their apps — Apple's latest desktop operating system update …
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| John Voorhees / MacStories: |
In-depth Catalina review: iTunes breakup is a success and Catalyst disappoints but it is the first step to integrate macOS into an unbroken computing continuum — Ironically, Apple chose to name this year's update to macOS after an island. Since the iPhone and iOS took off … | Mishaal Rahman / XDA Developers: |
Google to require new devices launching with Android 9 or later to come with a wellness app and parental controls, either Google's own apps or third-party ones — One of the biggest themes of Google I/O 2018 was improving digital wellness. As consumers realized they're spending way too much time online …
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| Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: |
The latest Google Mobile Services agreement states that OEMs' custom gesture navigation controls for Android must be enabled only via settings moving forward — Android 10's new gesture navigation system is a bit of a mixed bag, but it's what Google wants to be a standard across every Android device.| Bloomberg: |
Trump admin blacklists eight Chinese tech companies, including video surveillance camera giants, implicated in human rights violations against Muslim minorities — - Move comes as U.S.-China high-level trade talks set to resume — Action targets Chinese surveillance companies, public entities
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| Katie Notopoulos / BuzzFeed News: |
Instagram is removing the Activity feed's Following tab, which showed users what their friends were liking, saying that few people used it — Instagram is ditching the “Following” tab in the Activity feed. — A Catholic priest notices a fellow priest liking gay porn star pics on Instagram.| New York Times: |
The Trump administration is inserting CDA 230-like protections into international trade deals that shield online platforms from lawsuits related to user content — WASHINGTON — The Trump administration has begun inserting legal protections into recent trade agreements that shield online platforms …
Tweets: @nytimes, @nickconfessore, @matthewstoller, @cagoldberglaw, and @dmccabe
| Caroline Binham / Financial Times: |
Analysis: UK's Financial Conduct Authority now has 87 open inquiries into crypto companies, compared with 50 this time last year — The number of cryptocurrency businesses in the crosshairs of the UK's financial watchdog leapt by 74 per cent in the past year, as the Financial Conduct Authority estimates …
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| Hamza Jawad / Neowin: |
Microsoft expands Airband, its US rural broadband initiative, to Latin America and Africa, aims to bring the internet to 40M people globally by 2022 — A couple of years ago, Microsoft launched the Airband Initiative with the aim of serving broadband internet access to two million people living in the rural U.S. by 2022.
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Tweets: @4afrika, @shelleymckin, and @raj_devex
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Hulu launches support for offline viewing, letting users download up to 25 titles across 5 devices, initially available only to iOS users on its “No Ads” plan — Hulu is finally adding downloads to its streaming service, years after Netflix and Amazon Prime Video did the same.
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| Peter C Baker / The Guardian: |
Pedestrian deaths in US have steadily increased since 2010, and experts are skeptical that pedestrian detection systems and autonomous vehicles are the solution — For drivers, roads are safer than ever - but for people on foot, they are getting deadlier. Car companies and Silicon Valley claim that they have the solution.
Tweets: @guardian, @carolinerussell, @pedbikeinfo, @peterwalker99, and @walk_to
| Financial Times: |
Sources: Apple has recently approached big music labels about bundling together Apple Music and Apple TV+ for one flat monthly fee — Apple's hopes of creating a super-bundle of media content for one flat monthly fee have run into early opposition, with some record labels nervous …
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Tweets: @laurengoode, @loudmouthjulia, @annaknicolaou, @martinsfp, @mgsiegler, @mattgarrahan, @kantrowitz, and @trippmickle
| Kate Rooney / CNBC: |
Profile of Katie Haun, who targeted Bitcoin as a US DOJ prosecutor and is the first female general partner at a16z, now co-heading its $350M cryptocurrency fund — - Katie Haun is the first female general partner at Andreessen Horowitz, and co-heads its $350 million cryptocurrency fund.
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Tweets: @kr00ney, @davelevine0com, @masterbtcltc, @angela_walch, and @fintechfrank
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Roku to sell low-cost versions of its Smart Soundbar and Wireless Subwoofer under Walmart's onn brand for $129 — Roku will produce lower-cost versions of its new Smart Soundbar and Wireless Subwoofer for Walmart under the retailer's own onn brand, the company announced this morning.
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| Ian Allison / CoinDesk: |
The Enterprise Ethereum Alliance creates a system of trusted reward tokens backed by Microsoft and Intel, to incentivize teamwork in consortiums of companies — The Enterprise Ethereum Alliance (EEA), the consortium charged with creating standards for businesses to build applications using … | Jeremy Burge / Emojipedia: |
In iOS 13.1.2, Hong Kong users' emoji keyboard does not include the Taiwanese flag, a year after a more complete ban on the flag for iOS in mainland China — iPhone users in Hong Kong have noticed a change in the latest version of iOS: the 🇹🇼 Flag for Taiwan emoji is missing.
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The Verge, Boing Boing, and iPhone in Canada Blog
Tweets: @emojipedia, @sallyshin, @callumj, @wongmjane, and @smile_lee
| David G. Savage / Los Angeles Times: |
SCOTUS affirms lower court ruling that found the Americans With Disabilities Act protects access not just to physical businesses but also their websites, apps — The Supreme Court cleared the way Monday for blind people to sue Domino's Pizza and other retailers if their websites are not accessible to these people.
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Tweets: @sheshysterical, @digitaldutta, @michaelgrant_cj, @leeflower, @latimes, @merylkevans, and @jschwabish
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